{"id":3162,"date":"2022-01-10T14:38:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:38:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:38:39","slug":"carson-j-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/carson-j-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Carson, J. B."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>J. B. Carson<\/strong>, one of the early settlers of Lauderdale County, is a son of S.<br \/>\nM. and Jane (Carpenter) Carson. The father was born in Virginia in 1800, and<br \/>\nthe mother in Kentucky in 1799. They were married in Kentucky, and in 1825<br \/>\nthey moved to Tennessee and located in Carroll County, living in Carroll and<br \/>\nHenderson Counties until 1836, when they moved to Mississippi, then moved to<br \/>\nShelby County, Tenn., and in 1849 to Lauderdale County. Six of the seven<br \/>\nchildren born to them are living. Both parents were strict Presbyterians, and<br \/>\nMr. Carson a Whig. During the time of the militia, he was commissioned colonel<br \/>\nby Gov. Cannon; he was sheriff of Henderson County for two terms, and made<br \/>\nfarming and merchandising his business. His wife died in 1865, and he died in<br \/>\n1885. J. B. Carson, our subject, is of Scotch-Irish descent and was born<br \/>\nSeptember 10, 1830 in Carroll County, received a good education, and, after he<br \/>\nwas grown, farmed and taught school for three years. In 1854 he was elected<br \/>\nconstable of his district, and four years later, tax collector. In 1861 he<br \/>\nwent into the Confederate service, Company K, Ninth Tennessee Infantry, as<br \/>\nthird sergeant; the same year he was appointed quartermaster of his regiment,<br \/>\nbut resigned in 1863, and went on post duty, but in 1864 was discharged on<br \/>\naccount of ill health. After the war he engaged in merchandising, and in 1858<br \/>\nhe married Louise A. Stuart, who only lived about a year, and since then he<br \/>\nhas never remarried. Before the war he was a Whig, but now a Democrat, and has<br \/>\nheld the office of tax collector a term; he is now county coroner, and has<br \/>\nbeen for six years. While not a member of any church, he is of Presbyterian<br \/>\nfaith, and has been a citizen of Lauderdale County for thirty-seven years,<br \/>\nbeing widely known and highly esteemed.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J. B. Carson, one of the early settlers of Lauderdale County, is a son of S. M. and Jane (Carpenter) Carson. The father was born in Virginia in 1800, and the mother in Kentucky in 1799. They were married in <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/carson-j-b\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-3162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-carson"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3163,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions\/3163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}